About this episode

The episode discusses multiple research papers on ADHD treatment, focusing on the MTA study and its implications for understanding ADHD as a chronic condition.

Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD. I'm your host, William Curb, and I have ADHD. On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain. Today, I'm joined by Skye Waterson for our Research Recap series. In this series, we look at a single research paper—or, in today's case, multiple papers—and dive into what they say, how they were conducted, and try to find practical takeaways. The first paper we're discussing is called "The MTA at Eight Years: Prospective Follow-Up of Children Treated for Combined-Type ADHD in a Multisite Study." This is about the MTA, the Multitreatment Study of Children with ADHD, which was the largest, most expensive, and most influential study conducted on ADHD treatment, originally published in 1999. It had a huge impact on how we view ADHD, especially in highlighting the shift toward thinking of ADHD as a chronic condition that requires sustained management rather than just something you "cure." Let's dive in and talk about what's going on in this eight-year follow-up study. If you'd life to follow along on the show notes page you can find that at https://HackingYourADHD.com/304 https://tinyurl.com/56rvt9fr…

People in this episode

Host: William Curb

Guest: Skye Waterson

Topics covered

• ADHD treatment
• research recap
• multitreatment
• chronic condition
• children's health

Keywords

• ADHD
• multitreatment
• MTA study
• children
• chronic condition
• research recap
• Skye Waterson

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hacking Your ADHD

Books & works: The MTA at Eight Years: Prospective Follow-Up of Children Treated for Combined-Type ADHD in a Multisite Study

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